together and hasten his death XXV Faintness Against the faintness and pain of the heart it is good to keep the horse very warm and to give him this potion Take Herb Mercury a pound Gum-Dragon 4 ounces Myrrh 2 ounces Bruised Melilot 1 ounce Saffron half an ounce Fine Frankincense a convenient quantity all together pounded and mixt to a powder Which you are to keep for use and at each time take Oil of Roses two Cruises Water half a pint of the aforesaid powder two good spoonfulls Honey two spoonfulls for a potion This potion must be used for some dayes untill the horse beginneth to mend XXVI Over heated You must give to the horse that is heated in the winter through an horn the following potion Take Red-wine half a pint Oil three ounces But in the Summer Take Red wine half a pint Oil two ounces for a potion XXVII The Ague You may know amongst other tokens that a horse hath the ague when he can not make water his Ears Cold hanging and stinking The Ague of an horse is cured by letting him bleed on the vein which is found in the calf or thick part of the leg 4 fingers or thereabouts under the buttocks or else you may let him blood on the vein of the neck and if you observe that a potion is necessary then you must squeeze juice out of an handfull of Purslain and mix it with Gum-Dragon fine Frankincense and some few Damask-roses which give him to drink with a little Metheglin or Honey-water XXVIII Venemous Creatures swallowed down In case the horse in eating Hay or grass hath swallowed down any venemous beast as a Spider a certain kind of Lizard Earth Spider Snale or Dirt-Grubber Buprestis then you must make him run until he sweats next you must bleed him on the Palat and let him swallow down the blood You must give him to eat boiled Beans XXIX Lost Appetite or Stomach If he hath lost his Stomach wash his mouth with Vinegar and Salt and give him no Forrage nor Oats Hay Chaff or Straw but what is good XXX Hen-Dung Swallowed If the horse hath accidently swallowed down the dung of an Hen which brings Gripings of the Guts then you are to use this following Medicine Take Dried Ladys-Mark 2 ounces Honey and Wine a convenient quantity for a potion Give him this to drink and then lead him backwards and forwards untill his belly beginneth to make a noise and rumble and then he is clear from his Malady XXXI Cholick or Griping in the Guts Against the Cholick or griping in the guts Take Black Pepper two ounces The Juice and the Root of Jews-Ear Parsley Fenicle Marjoram of each an ounce Sage half an ounce Live-Honey about 2 quarts Boil it scum it well and make it of the bigness of an Haslenut to little cakes Which you must give the horse to drink with good wine about half a pint And on that day when he hath the Cholick then take Fennil-seed three or four spoonsfull and with a convenient quantity of wine you shall presently give it to the horse to drink and then cover him and make him sweat well XXXII Pain in the Belly Against the Griping or pain in the Belly you shall take tame or wild Rhue-seed pound it very small and with warm Wine make a potion thereof you may also put therein Cumin and Fennil-seed of each alike quantity next keep the horse warm and well covered in a close place but before you give him this potion you must mount upon him and ride him to and fro rather along high places than upon eaven ground And when he is in the Stable again then cover him with a good woollen cloth if he grows cold again then you must anoint his fundament with Oil until it is heated and breaks wind Farther it would do well also to put a Rod which is thick enough and half a foot long into his fundament well anointed with common Oil and made fast to the trunk of the fundament that it cannot go out and then mount upon the horse and ride him to and fro You must also give him to eat that which is of a warm nature and let him drink Water boiled with Cumin and Fennil-seed of each a like quantity adding thereunto Wheaten-meal a sufficient quantity and in a close place keep him warm and well covered XXXIII Obstruction or Oppilation The Obstruction or Oppilation is cured by potions and clysters the potion must be thus give him daily powder of wild Rhue with the seed soaked in good Red Wine Or Take Anise-seed and the Juice of Poppeys and Flower-de-luce Root a convenient quantity This all together being well pounded and beaten small you must add some Sugar-candy Red-Wine half an ounce Oil of Olives of each three ounces for a potion This you must give him at three times for three daies one after another Or a Glister made after this manner Take Marsh-Mallows and Cashe 2 ounces Juice of flower-de-luce a convenient quantity adding thereunto Oil of Bay-Berries Wine and Rhue of each 3 ounces Pigeon-Dung Salt-petre of each an ounce for a Clyster After the Clyster is applied you must lead the Beast gently to and fro Some Horse-Coursers have found this following receipt to be good in this Distemper Take Honey nine spoonfulls Pepper-Corns nine Hares-Dung a sufficient quantity adding thereunto a Decoctum of Fitches or Red-Colworts as much as is requisite for a portion XXXIV Falling of the Fundament If the Fundament be faln take fine bruised Salt spread it upon the hinder-gut and put it between the Rupture next take a piece of Bacon and put it therein in the form of a stick pell and lay thereupon Mask or Mallows until it is healed XXXV Worms Against the Worms give the horse to drink Water in which Rye has been boiled or with some Brimstone amongst Bread or burnt Ashes of the wood of Olive-tree Or take powder of dry Wormwood with the seed raw Lupinum of each an equal quantity being all together mingled in white Wine for a potion For to give it to the horse at three several times After these three daies you must make a Clister of these following things Take of Wormwood and Rhue a convenient quantity Adding thereunto two Ox-Galls straining them Alloes one ounce For a Clister XXXVI Flux or Looseness of the Belly Against the Flux or Looseness of the Belly there a is very good certain potion made of powder of Gall-nuts with white Wine and Starch mingled together Or in case that the Looseness is occasioned by Cold then give the horse to eat sops soaked in Red-wine and Rose-water Farther anoint his Loins and Belly with Claret-wine Oil and a little Salt mixt XXXVII Bloody-Flux Against the Bloody-Flux which is occasioned by the Forrage let the horse bleed on the vein of the shoulder next make a Decoction of Wheat with unsalted Grease and powder of dry Granado's skales strain it and make a potion thereof and give the horse
when the matter is run out put into the hollowness the lint or scrapings of Linnen made wet in Water Oil and Salt This Sickness must be cured immediately for if it continue long then there is not any hope of recovery XVI Squinacy Or Swelling in the Throat The Swelling in the Throat or Squinacy otherwise pain in the Throat and swelling of the Tongue requires first letting of blood on the vein under the Tongue or of the Palat and next a fomenting of the whole Mouth and Tongue with warm Water next an anointment of the Gall of a Bull or of Salt and Wine-Stone pounded in Wine-Vinegar The potion you must make in manner following Take Anniseeds one ounce Old Oil two pound Red-Wine half a pint Fat Figgs of each nine Let it be all together soaked well and make a Decoction thereof into which you must put rubbed Saltpetre and Salt a convenient quantity strain it and make it a potion Which you are to pour into the Throat of the horse twice a day to wit in the morning and at night about a pint Next you must give him to eat green Barley or Barley-flower with which you must mingle Salt-petre if you let the horse bleed it must be done in the Palat of the mouth XVII Waxen Kernels Struma Choaking or Strangling The Waxen Kernel Struma or Choaking which is engendred under the throat of the horse and falls down from a cold brain you are to prick him under the throat next to cover his head with a linnen cloth and to rub often with sweet-butter the whole throat especially the place where the swellings lye XVIII Distemper of the Neck Against the Distemper of the Neck pierce the flesh in five places on both sides of the throat with an hot Iron as sharp as an Awl put into each hole an Hoggs-bristle and let the same stick therein for a whole fortnight XIX Galled Neck When the Neck or the Back is galled by the pressing of the Saddle then you ought to lay upon the wound the leaves of black Brionia XX. Crick in the Neck Against the Crick in the Neck wash the place with luke-warm Wine next lay some Tow of Flax dipt in the White of an Egg. XXI Distemper of the Lungs Against the Distemper of the Lungs take a Snake cut off the head and taile the rest cut into small pieces and roast it on a spit gather together the fat or grease that drops from the same and use it against the Distemper XXII Pursiness or Short windness The Pursie or Short-winded horse ro wit which cannot well take his breath and though he is spurred and struck he will not go on but coughs very much drawing his breath painfully Nay in eating also he doth not cease from coughing This Distemper is very hard to be cured It is true as long as the Distemper is new and occasioned by dust of a dust-raising wind or by eating any uncleanness in his forrage there is some remedy against this Distemper to wit the letting of Blood on the Shoulders and by chafing or anointing the horse on the breast and the back with the warm blood of the Beast mingled with Wine and Oil of Elephant when you have continued that five daies together then the five following daies you must let him fetch through the Nostrils Lye mingled with Oil Next give him to drink this potion which is made out of the following kinds Take Roast Mustard-seed Living Brimstone Paradise-corn of each a like convenient quantity being pounded small and boiled together in Metheglin to a Decoction Or make a thick Composition thereof and of that you must cause him every day to take as much as the bigness of a Walnut with thick Red-wine which is very good and excellent or make a potion of the following things Take Galingal Ginger Clove or July-flowers Cummin Fennil Eggs. Saffron a little mingled with Wine of all take a convenient quantity for a potion And pour it into the mouth of the horse holding his head up high that he may swallow it down the more easily without permitting him to let his head fall down at least for the space of a good half hour to the end that the potion may run through all his guts Next give him green grass or reed or willow leaves to eat to qualify the heat of the potion but the horse must in the mean time eat nothing half a day before or afterwards Next lead the horse gently backwards and forwards with the halter or mount upon him and ride him gently to the end that he may not vomit up the potion This is a means to heal a horse that is pursy and short-winded if the distemper is not too old but if it be an old evil then you may help it with brand-marks and by cutting up the nostrills for the heat of the fire will hinder this shortness of breath and cause the breath the better to enter in and to issue through the nostrills give him also often times grapes to eat and sweet wine to drink Moreover there is another excellent remedy to wit a potion made of Agaricus and Fenugreek soaked in red wine or the blood of a little dog which is not above ten dayes old the same being given the horse to drink or the root of wild Cucumbers and Gall Nuts pounded with Honey-water and making a potion thereof XXIII Cough The Cough is occasioned by many reasons sometimes it proceeds from the lungs and other parts of the body therabouts and sometimes out of other inward and most low members which have the operations there is not any thing better against this distemper then the snipping or cutting of the nostrills of the beast And in case that he doeth not mend then you ought to pour into his throat a good draught of this following potion Take Fenigreek and Flax-seed of each a measure Gum-Dragon Frankincense Myrrha Sugar The Bran of small Pease or Fitches of each an ounce being all together bruised small and sifted Lay it a soaking a whole night in warm water And the next day you must give the horse to drink thereof according as has been said this you must continue adding thereunto Oil of Roses until he is well recovered some lay five whole Eggs a mollifying for a whole night in strong Vineger and the next morning when they observe that the shell is become soft they cause the horse to swallow it down Farther you ought never to bleed the beast in any place whatsoever but you must at the same time continue to give him Gum Dragon with sweet Oil. XXIV Vlcers or Aposthumes of the Breast The Ulcers or Aposthumes of the breast cause horses to die immediately therefore as soon as the waxing Kernell of the breast swells up you must draw out the swelling without ceasing but in case a vein breaketh thereby then you are to tie both ends together with a Silk thred for the greater the swelling grows the more matter or filth it will gather
which is mentioned before in the healing or curing of Faintness Sect. 25. LV. Broken Loins Against broken Loins and straining of the same see what hath been said in reference to the cure of the bloody Flux Sect. 37. LVI Swelling of the Flank When the horse is sick his Rump and whole body being swoln by eating of bad Oats or Hay you must make him this potion Take the innermost stomach-skins of three Chickens let them be well dried in an Oven break them to pieces and add thereto fine powder of Frankincense one ounce Pepper half an ounce Honey four spoonfuls with half a pint of luke-warm Wine mingled for a potion Let the horse drink this to mollifie his belly give him through a pipe that is somewhat thick and long a Clyster of the Decoction of the herb mercury Pellitory and other mollifying herbs adding thereunto Honey Oil Sage and Salt This done anoint the belly with Oil let the horse be rubbed behind by two men with a round staf or cudgell then mount upon him and let him trot gently a long while not only until he be rid of his Clyster but also of his dung and then he will soon recover again and be freed from his pain LVII Scabby or Mangy Against the Scab you must let him bleed out of the Limbs that are convenient for that and near the place where the evil lyes It will be necessary to purge the horse with powder of will Cucumber-roots mixt with Salt-petre and given the horse with wine through a horn this Physick being oftentimes taken purges away the bad humours for an outward Physick or Remedy take Sulphur vivum or living Brimstone Tar and Jews-Gum Asphaltum break and mingle these matters in fresh-boiled Butter with this ointment you must oftentimes let him be anointed all over the body in the greatest heat of the Sun except you will rather use this following Medicine Take Rosin-Pitch Bird lime or Cum of each four ounces Strong Vinegar about a pint mingle it well together to an ointment with Mans Urine and luke-warm water Adding thereunto Fresh or unsalted Grease and Old Oil of each three ounces make it to an ointment or a Searcloth LVIII Sinew-struck Sinew-struck is when the knees or joints be wrenched or out of joint by running in a desert place and that the horse hath set his foot wrong upon the ground and this is cured with an ointment made of these following Ingredients Take Hoggs-grease or Suet 4 ounces Fenigreek Flax-seed of each one ounce Boil this together until it is much lessened and grown thick for an ointment If you should think it to be better first to wash the horse all over or to foment him with piss and lukewarm water and then chafe him with a chafing ointment the juice of Coliander-seed adding thereto Vinegar and Tar and Wax is an excellent remedy against this evil And forget not that you chafe and smear him alwayes against the lying of the hair Besides there is another special remedy against this to wit first to curry the scabby place til it bleeds and next to wash it with a Lye of the following Ingredients Take Ashes of Ashen-Tree 3 ounces Beans 2 ounces Lime 1 ounce not boiled but soaked to a Lye wash the place therewith After the washing you must chafe the place with an ointment made of Allom Coalts-foot Hellebore Quick-silver Brim-stone and Hogs-grease or Suet. LIX Swoln Knees Against swollen knees Take burnt Copper half a pound Bolus Synople a conv quantity Salt a little melted in a pint of strong Vinegar LX. Cleft and Wounded Knees When the Knees are cleft wounded Take common Oil. Flax-seed Burnt Rye-straw of each a sufficient quantity mingle it together to an ointment and to anoint the wound therewith in the morning and at night till it is healed LXI Overgrowing of the Knee pan Against the over-grown bone or the over-growing of the knee-pan you must first cut off the hair and lay thereupon bruised and boyled roots of white Mallows next put a plaister thereupon made of Mallow-roots Mustard-seed and Oxe-dung being altogether boyled in vinegar LXII Farcions or Leprosie of the Leggs For to cure the Leprosy of the Leggs you must first cut off the hair and then for four daies continually in the morning and at night chafe the place with Juniper-Oil In the mean time the horse must not be rid to the water before the hair is is grown again Besides it may be cured by a long and oblique burning of an hot Iron Another way to heal this evill is to take roots of white Thistle cut in small slices and being given to the horse to eat amongst his oats he will without doubt be well and recover again within a fortnight or three weeks at least This means is very easy and so much the more because the horse eats it heartily LXIII Chaps between the Joints Leggs Against the Chaps which appear between the joynts of the leggs and the claws of the feet you must cut off the hair and wash the place with wine next chafe it with an ointment made of soot of a chimney and spanish green bruized and boyled together at last adding thereto lime as much as is requisite but if the chaps be too deep then burn them LXIV String-halt The String-halt is thus healed Cut the skin after the length of the hair and according to the bigness of the wound lay a little Cloth thereupon dipped in wine and spread thereupon powder of Spanish-green until they be LXV Mallender The Mallender must after the hair is cut off be washed with a Decoction of Mallows Sheep-grease and Brimstone and then the relick or remainder to be laid thereupon when it is taken off again you must make an ointment of of this following Take Gum-Arabick Turpentine New Wax of each a like quantity mingled together a convenient quantity to an ointment LXVI Spavin Against the spavins appearing within the knee-ham you must let the great vein of the thigh swell up and to tap blood out of the same burn it in the length and breadth and heal in such manner as hereafter will be said concerning the overgrowing of the hoof of an horse LXVII Biting of a Mad Dog Against the biting of a mad Dog this is an excellent remedy At least before the 9 days Take Henbane-seed burnt and mingled with old Hogs-grease and laid upon the biting or the same being bruised mixt with old wine and and given the horse to drink Like-wise Eglantine or sweet briar root pounded small and spread over the wound or given to drink with good old wine Likewise Elder-berry or seed or Juice of Elder-leaves or of Ash-tree LXVIII Biting of a Water-Snake Against the biting of water-snakes Take a living Cock split asunder in the midst of the belly and lay it warm upon the wound And then immediately you must give the horse a potion of strong Wine yellow Lilly powder and salt or roots leaves and fruits of wild vine
the place bruised Sage and the Horn will be healed 5. Hair standing upright When the Hair of the Oxe or Cow stands upright over the whole Body and he is not so merry as he uses to be but of a sad look his Neck hanging downwards his Mouth foamy having a heavy gate the Back-bone and also the whole Back stiff eating without Stomach and chewing but little This Sickness may be cured in the beginning but being inveterate it can in no wise or at least very seldom be helped For which cure take Sea-Onion or Wild-Onion and cut small Roots of Mellons bruised of each three Ounces course Salt three handfuls let it be soaked in a pot of strong Wine or in Vinegar to a potion Of this you may give the Oxe or Cow every day half a pint 6. Lice or Ticks Against Lice or Ticks you must use a Decoctum of wild Olives and Salt and take away the little Blisters which he has under his Tongue 7. The Scab Itch or Mange The Scab Itch or Mange is cured with Common Oyl and Oyl of Olives mingled together or take Oxe-Gall the Powder of living Brimstone Myrrhe Oyl and Vinegar with some Plum-Allum being rub'd small and mingled together Or chafe him with his Piss with old Salt-butter with Turpentine or with White Rozen melted in White Wine 8. Eating Sore in the Neck Against an Eating Sore or Scab rub him with bruised Garlick with Powder of Brimstone and Vinegar with broken Gall-nuts or with White Andoren mixt with Soot 9. Aposthumes or Sores In case he hath Aposthumes or Sores then you must annoint them with brused Mallow in White Wine also upon the Sore parts unless there be great reason to the contrary It is likewise very good to lay small bruised Powder of Gall-nuts likewise the Juice of Andoren is very good in this case being mixt with the Soot of an Oven 10. Boils or Mattering Vlcers Boils or Ulcers are made ripe with Leaven Lilly-root with Sea-Onion and Vinegar letting him blood and cleansing him with his warm Piss putting therein Wicks dipt in Tar all which spread upon a Linnen Cloth which has lain in the Grease of Goats or of Oxen and lay it to the part affected 11. Hide-bound on the Legs If the Skin sticks to the Bones then you must foment it either with Wine alone or such as is mixt with Oyl 12. Hide-bound on the Ribs In case he is too lean that the Skin seems to cleave to the Ribs then foment his Hide against the grain of the Hair with Wine and Oyl in a warm place or in the Sun next annoint him with the Dregs of Wine and Hogs Suet being mixt together into an Ointment 13. Bewitched The Oxe and Cow is often bewitched as well as the Horse the signs of this are that he is melancholly grows dry and lean therefore you shall give him in through the Nostrils Jews Gum Brimstone Juniper-berries being all together soaked and broken in warm Water 14. Head-ach Against Head-ach bruise Garlick in Wine and let him draw that up through the Nostrils next foment the whole Head with a decoctum of Laurel Lavender Mariblam or Margelins Nuts and Rue Blisters sodden in Wine 15. Humour or Rheum When he contracts any Humour or Rheum because of superfluity of Flegm or Snot which is apparent when his Eyes run and that he has no Stomach and lets his Ears hang down then wash his Mouth with Rhue bruised in White Wine or rub his Mouth with Garlick and small beaten Salt and wash it next with Wine Some cleanse these Flegms with bruised Laurel-leaves and the Rinds of Granat-Apples others put into his Nostrils Myrrhe and Wine 16. Swollen Eyes Against swollen Eyes put upon them a Plaister of Wheaten-meal mixt with Honey or Honey-water But if they are swollen with Humour or Rheume then let him blood under the Tongue and pour into him well cleansed Juice of Ladies Mark Sage and Savin or against bad swollen Eyes make an Eye-water of bruised Wheat mingled with Honey-water 17. Weeping Eyes Against Weeping Eyes and Moistness that drops upon his Cheeks take Pap of Wheaten-meal and make thereof a Plaister for to lay upon the Eyes Against this Distemper also Wild Parsnips being bruised with Stalk and Root together and mixt with Honey for to annoint the Eyes therewith is very effectual 18. Running Eyes Against Running Eyes blow into them fine bruised Copperas or Vitriol and Thutia 19. Sharp Tears Against Sharp Tears Epiphorae of the Eyes that is that the Oxe hath but his half Sight whether it be in one or in both Eyes you must let him blood under the Eyes and the Sight will be bettered but you must continually drop Honey into his Eyes until he is perfectly cured 20. Mattering Eyes Against Eyes that Matter like a Wound which happeneth by continual Humour which fall down from the Brains take Saffron and fine Frankincense of each two ounces Myrrhe one ounce break it in Rain Water and mingle it to an Eye-water 21. Dark and Cloudy Eyes In case he hath a Dark and Cloudy Eye then blow into it fine Powder of Cinnamon Sugar-candy and of dried Bones 22. Shales or Nail of the Eyes Against the Shales or Nail of the Eyes you must make him an Eye-Water of Stone-salt Sal Armoniack soaked in Honey or annoint also the Eyes with a mixture of Oyl of Olives and Pitch being well incorporated to prevent the danger of Flies which are apt to come about the Honey 23. Spots or Webs in the Eyes Against Spots or Webs in the Eyes which is nothing but a superfluity which through great Cold or long continuance grows upon the Eyes in which there is a Humour which is called Waterish upon which swimmeth one which is somewhat Glassie To cure this Distemper take Ardtvel and pound it long in a Woodden Mortar and annoint the Eyes with the Juice which comes out from it But if you cannot get that then take the Leaves and Berries of Straw-berries and make thereof Juice as before Continue with one of these Remedies in the Morning and at the Evening for many days together then the Spots shall decrease and go away And observe that you do instead of Water take Wine thereto it would be better and more convenient 24. White on the Eyes Against the White on the Eyes put a Plaister thereupon of Chrystal Salt Sal Gemmae and Mastick pounded small and mixt on the Eyes together with Honey continuing the same often times 25. Warts upon the Eye-lids In case he hath Warts upon the Eye-lids then foment the place with the Gall of any Beast whatsoever or which is better cut the Warts off with a pair of Cissers or take them off with a Thread tied on stiff next annoint the place with Alloes Vinegar and Gall boiled together 26. Swollen Pallate or Falling of the Pallate If the Pallate is swollen then you must open it immediately with a Lancet or red-hot Iron to the end that the corrupted Blood
know by his great Disquiet or want of Rest trembling over the whole Body through the great Heat in the midst of his Fore-head and about the root of his Horns and by his Ears also by his hot Mouth and his excessive Sweat by his little eating and licking and drawing of a dry Tongue by the heaviness or melancholly of the Head cunning and half-shut Eyes his Mouth very moist and full of Slabber long fetching of Breath nevertheless with great pain and often turning On the first day that you are aware of the Sickness let him fast the whole day the next day you shall let him bleed a little under his Tail five days afterwards you must nourish him with a Decoctum made of Burs Oyl and Pickle You must proffer him 〈◊〉 ways before all other green or moist Food viz. small tops of Lettice and other young Sprouts which you know will please the Beast VVash him also three times a day in the Mouth with a Sponge that is made wet in Vinegar next you shall give him three times very cold Water to drink and let him not seed in the pasture till the Ague hath left him 46. Beating of the Heart In case he is troubled with Beating of the Heart and a desire to vomit then rub him in the Mouth with Garlick or bruised Leeks and let him also swallow them down either alone or with a pint of Wine especially against the Griping in the Guts Chollick and rumbling of the Belly according as we shall shew in its due place Sect. 52. In case he has lost his Stomach you must give him raw Eggs beaten with Honey and Salt mingled with his Fodder or give him in his drink Andoren bruised small with Oyl and Wine or bruise the Leaves of Parsley ..... Sage and Rue and give him this to drink with White Wine 47. Stomach Lost For to excite him to a Stomach when he has lost his Taste by great weariness and heat rub his Tongue and the Pallate of his Mouth with Vinegar and Salt 48. Horse-leech swallowed down In case he has swallowed down an Horse-leech in drinking which hangs yet in his Throat then let him lie down and pour into his Mouth warm Oyl but if it is sunk down in his Stomach then give him some Vinegar through a Horn. 49. Venemous Grubs swallowed If the Oxen Kine or Horses feeding in the Pasture have swallowed down little Grubs which lie under the Herbs and are called by the Latins Buprestis of which they sometimes swell up burst and die then the Oxe-keeper must let them presently drink Cows-milk or a Decoctum of dry Figs or of Dates boiled in Wine and give them sharp and strong Clisters 50. Swelling and puffing up The Oxen swell and blow up when they have eaten too much Grass especially when the Dew lies thereupon then you must take a Horn which is bored through both sides annoint it with common Oyl and put it three or four fingers deep into his Fundament and next lead him backwards and forwards until he farteth leaving the Horn in his Fundament and rub his Belly with a flat piece of Wood. 51. Pain of the Belly Against Pain of the Belly give them Tracle or Mithridate to be drunk in Wine and the next day after let him blood under the Tongue and Nostrils or give him a Decoctum of Camomil and Rue pounded small letting them stand and rest at least for the space of seven or eight days or take Turpentine four Ounces mingled with a little Salt which is an excellent Remedy in this Sickness letting the Beast swallow it down in the form of a Bolus Pills or Potions 52. Cholick Against the Griping or stinging of the Guts Collick and rumbling of the Belly which is known when he sighs and stretcheth his Neck Legs or Belly or that he lieth down and rises often again and cannot stay in one place this evil is occasioned by weariness more in the Lent than in any other season in this Sickness you must let him walk being covered with a Wollen Cloth and rub him in the Mouth with Garlick or bruised Onion and let him swallow down the same either with a pint of Wine or alone some add thereunto Oyl of Mace and give him Allum and Red Cabidge being soaked in Wine with Mirrh and take away the Flesh round about the Claws of the Feet and prick him in the Tail that he bleedeth 53. Opilation or Obstruction In case he is opilated or obstructed then to open him the Belly and the hinder parts which are obstructed you must give him to drink in the morning two ounces of powdered Alloes with luke-warm Water or take Hiera two ounces Alloes one ounce mingled Or else you may as a very excellent Remedy give the sick Beast many times the remainder of Olives out of which the Oyl is press'd 54. Looseness of Bloody-Flux Against the Looseness which he gets by the eating of some Herbs or other like things which are hard to digest you must keep him at first two or three days from Grass and in the mean time lay before him the Blisters of Wild-Olive-trees Horse-tail Way-hroad or Plantain and sometimes the Berries of Night-shade in the mean time you must not give him much to drink and for the most part no drink at all keeping him some days from Eating any other thing but the Leaves of Young Orega and Pursly and let him not drink more than three Bowls of Water a day wherein young Sprouts of Laurel Leaves have been soaked But if a greater Looseness seizes upon him even to the Bloody-Flux then keep him four or five days without Meat and Drink and give him Raison-Kernels soaked in red Wine or Gall-nuts and Mirtle-berries soaked with old Cheese in thick Wine But the most excellent Remedy is to burn him in the midst of his Fore-head 55. Spoil'd Arse-gut If the Arse Gut be spoiled take three ounces of Turpentine and let it be put into his Fundament by a little Boy who has a thin and long Arm and let him be well cleansed within This you must continue five or six days Hogs-suet is also good instead of Turpentine for to annoint or to smear him therewith 56. Paia of the Loins Against the Pain of the Loins which many times troubles the Oxen make this following Pap Take Flower of Cole-worts-seed of each three handfuls bruise it together and mingle it with cold Water to a Pap and then put it upon the place where the Pain is You may also take Cypress Blisters without Stalks three handfuls and proceed therewith as before adding thereto in the bruising of it strong Vinegar or if there is any hardness by take Rosin or that which is harder Grecian Pitch Colophoniae three ounces let it melt by the heat of the Fire and when it is well hot then add thereto Barley of Meal a convenient quantity let it boil together to a Poltis and lay it well warm upon the Rump unto the Reins or
the Loins 57. Pains of the Reins Inflamation You may perceive that the Oxe has pain in his Reins when in Kacking or doing his Easement from behind he cannot set his Feet on those parts according to his will but stumbleth aside when he does not lift up his Tail but lets it hang when his Piss stinks much and all the Course is stopt and interrupted behind If he has an Inflamation and Pisses as red as Blood when it continues and increases then there is little Remedy to be had against it yet if it is but coloured a little reddish then there is some hope of recovery in this Sickness you shall let him blood out of the hinder Veins or Mother-vein which you find a long the side about the Reins For his dirnking give him the Juice of Garlick with luke-warm Water or else with his own Piss 58. Inflamation of the Brawns or Muscle Against the Inflamation of the Brawns as well inwardly as outwardly which proceed from the Rump and Loins by falling upon hard and Stony places and getting Bruises Let the Oxe which is fallen not go far from his place as soon as he is come into the Stable and wash the parts affected with cold Water next use an Ointment and Sear-cloths made of Oyl and Wax which must not be too hot The tokens of this Distemper are that the Loins the Reins grow hard outwardly the Stones lessen and go in so that you can but see them very little that he cannot well move his Thigh and that he can hardly rise when he lieth 59. Pissing of Blood The Oxe Pisseth Blood when he is over-heated or too cold or because he has eaten bad Herbs during the Summer especially when the Dew cleaves yet thereon The cure against this is that you give him neither Wanor any other Liquor but that you give him a potion made of these following Ingredients Take Sea-Oinion Hemp seed of each three ounces bruised together and add thereto Treacle one ounce being all together boiled in two pints of White Wine at last adding thereunto Saffron two ounces to a potion and this pour into the Mouth of the Oxe Or give him against Pissing of Blood the Juice of Lambs Tongue with good Oyl next take the Powder of Wild-Gourds Coloquints and Wine-stone mingled in Red Wine and the White of Eggs pouring the same into him through an Horn. And if you do not stop the Pissing of Blood then he will die thereof within four and twenty hours 60. Vnableness of Pissing In case he can hardly Piss then you shall let him Blood on the Vein of the Bladder and next give him a draught of Honey Oyl and White Wine being boiled together and this you must continue three mornings one after another 61. Stone of the Bladder If he has the Stone of the Bladder take Sea-fenicle two ounces Cloves a quarter of an ounce Pepper one ounce and a half being altogether bruised and mingled with lukewarm Water to a Potion But if the Stone when this is continued some days doth not fall out then it must be cut out 62. Stone in the Yard In case he has the Stone in the Yard then throw the Oxe down immediately hold the Yard with Tongs a little higher than where the Stone lies open the Yard on the side and take out the Stone next heal the Wound again with Turpentine washt four times in Horse-tail-water 63. Hardened Yard If the Yard be hardened then smear it twice a day with an Ointment of bruised White Mallow-roots and fresh Butter 64. Swollen Cods If his Cods are swollen by what cause soever it be then annoint them in the morning and at night with unsalted Hogs-suet or foment them with strong Vinegar in which fine Chalk and Oxen-dung have been soaked They hold it for a Natural Remedy that the Gall of a Dog healeth the Swollen Cods of an Oxe being often annointed therewith 65. Limping or Halting If he Limps and Halts because of Cold which he has suffered on the Feet then wash them with his Piss which is made warm but if it proceed from the superfluity of Blood which in the bending of the Joynts is sunk upon the Feet then you must divide or resolve it by rubbing or chafing and by drawing Blood by cupping but if upon this it will not go away you must cleave the Claw of the Foot at the end unto the Flesh and thus let it run out and bind the Joynts round about with a Leather-purse that no Matter may come thereunto until it is cured In case he limps by having strained a Vein then you must annoint his Foot with Oyl and Salt if it be occasioned by a swelling of the Knee then foment it with warm Vinegar or with a Decoctum of Barley and Flux-seed But howsoever it happens you must burn it and lay thereupon fresh Butter wash'd in Water and Vinegar and at last make an Ointment of Salt-butter and Goats suet or Grease If it comes by a Splinter or by a knock against a piece of Wood or Stone then bathe the place with warm Piss and lay thereupon Oyl old Grease and Tar melted together Nothing preserves him better from Limping than to wash his Feet with cold Water when they are disjoyonted and then to rub them with old Grease 66. Leg-out of Joynt If his Leg is out of Joynt or wrinched put it in again and when you have smeared it with Hogs-grease bind it fast with Straw 67. Broken Legs For to put it in again if broken you must draw with Cords the uttermost parts of the same on both sides perpendicularly that so the disjoynted Leg may be again put together and joyned as before this being done you must untie the Cords and bind round about it Tow of Flax that is made wet in a mixt on of the White of Eggs Bolus Armenius and Sanguis Draconis next bind it so fast that it may be joyned together again above the binding you must lay Tow of Flax made wet in Wine for to strengthen and corroborate the Sinews at last that the uppermost and undermost parts of the broken Leg may not be hardened or get any ill fashion or form as well by the binding up of the Wound as by the Chop or Cleft of the Leg you must annoint both parts with the following Ointment viz. Butter Oyl Turpentine of each one ounce mingled to an Ointment 68. Biting of Serpents In case he has been bit by an Earth-spider Serpent or by a mad Dog then smear the Wound with Scorpion-Oyl or Sope which has lain in Vinegar and wash him with a Decoctum of great Burs or with old Pickle 70. Stinging of Horse-flies or Hornets Against the stinging of Horse-flies and Wasps rub him with Lead-Ointment or Salve Cerays being soaked in Water and moisten the place where he feeds to drive away the Horse-flies with a Decoctum of Wormwood chare him with the same Decoctum but if he is stung then cleanse the place with his own
Remedy to use in this Distemper than to bathe the Sheep with She-Goats-milk but my Advice is to separate the first Sheep that hath this Distemper from the Flock that the rest be not infected 15. Scab or Itch. Against Scabbiness or Scurveyness in Sheep you must make a Salve of these following Ingredients Take Brimstone Cyprus Roots of each three ounces which you must incorporate with Camphire and White Rosin Wax a convenient quantity after that you have annointed the scabby or scurvey Sheep three nights one after another then wash it with Lie sea-Sea-water or Pickel and the Sheep will be well 16. Diseases in the Lungs If your Sheep be distempered in the Lungs you must give him Colts-foot Sage and Pursland mixed with Metheglin or a spoonful or two of Mithridate in White Wine or a head of Garlick mixt with Vinegar 17. Cough Against the Cough you must give the Sheep to drink in the morning out of a little Horn Oyl of sweet Almonds mixt with White VVine being made luke-warm also let the Sheep eat the Herb Colts-foot if the Cough come in the spring but if it be in any other season then you may give him some bruised Fenugrick with some Cummin-seed 18. Swallowing of a Venemous Creature In case the Sheep swallow down an Horse-leech or any other Venemous Creature you must pour into his Throat strong Vinegar warm'd or Oyl 19. Swelling of the Belly There is an Herb which is called a Thousand Buttons and the Herb Centory is very unwholesome for Sheep whereof if they eat the whole Belly swells up voiding a thick and stinking humour then the best Remedy is to let them blood presently under the Tail near the Buttock or on the Vein of the uppermost Lip 20. Lame in the Claws In case the Sheep becomes Lame because its Claws are grown weak by having stood too long in his own Dung and that it can't go then you must cut off the end of the Nail affected or Claw of the Foot affected and lay thereupon unslacked Lime with a Cloth leaving it but one day thereupon and the next day lay Spanish Green thereupon laying it on by turns until the Claw be healed 21. Maggots Lice or Ticks The same Remedy is good also for a Sheep that hath Maggots Lice or Ticks as for a Sheep that hath the Scab or Itch as you will find in the 15th Receipt for Sheep 22. Broken or Bruised Joynts For Broken or Bruised Joynts give the Sheep a Drink made of Bettony Mugwort and Multowes of each a spoonful of the Juice and annoint the Wound with black Sope or mix Bird-lime with Tallow and lay a hot Plaister on the Wound The Country-mans Guid containing the Direction for the Breed Ordering and Curing of all Distempers in Swine 1. HEad-ach or Sleepy-evil 2. The Pox in Swine 3. Eating of Yarro 4. Diseases in the Eyes 5. Ague or Feaver 6. Measles prevented 7. Rheum or Catarrhe 8. To prevent Vomiting 9. Measles Cured 10. Plague or Diseases in the Milt 11. Swelling in the Neck or Throat 12. Aposthumes or Swellings in the Throat 13. Imposthumes in the Body 14. Diseases in the Gall. 15. To kill Lice or Ticks 16. Thirst prevented 17. To prevent Greediness 18. For a great Cough or Cold. 19. Belly-Ach 20. Lameness in the Foot 21. Flux in Swine 22. Broken Legs or Joynts â—…e Country mans Guide shewing the severall places in the body of a Hog where diseases vsually happen Introduction HAving before treated of the more Tamer sort of Cattle I shall now likewise treat of Swine as being the most unruly and the most hurtful in his kind of any common Beast but nevertheless very much desired because it yieldeth sweet Flesh whilst they are young and for his Bacon when salted as being the most serviceable and not to omit the advantage of the Hide Bristles and Grease Therefore it is requisite in all those places where there is a great number of Swine kept that there is a Man allowed for no other Imployment then to keep the Swine and carefully to preserve them from danger that may befall them or that they may not injure the Corn-fields in which they are kept and to take care of the weaned Piggs The Husbandman must take care for such Food that is convenient for Swine as Acrons Nuts Haws and all such as the Swine usually eat 'T is good that you provide entertainment against the Hogs come out of the Field at the usual time for by so doing you shall make them return to their Owner without running astray which certainly you may do by a due providing of Meat for them at a set time Marks of a good Bore The Bore is esteemed the best that is short and broad his Mouth drawing upwards and long having a broad and thick Breast broad Shoulders short and great Thighs white of Colour and in a word the broadest and most four square and of a full Body having thick Bristles on his Back is the best Bore Marks of a good Sow The best Sows are such as are longest of Body with a hanging Belly of broad Buttocks and long Ribs of a little Head and short Legs white Hair The time of a Sow being covered Let not the Sow be covered before she is above one year old and the Bore that covereth her must be three or four years old but after the fifth year you must geld him for to feed him for Brawn or Bacon The best time to cover a Sow is from the Increase until the Full Moon after the Full Moon it is not good The best time in the year is to let the Sow take the Bore at Candlemass that the Piggs may be strong in the Harvest time The Winter Piggs are more hard to bring up and not so natural as the others that are Pigg'd in Summer A Sow may rear Eighteen Piggs if she hath so many Paps The best time to Geld Pigs and to Splay the Sow THe best time to geld is when they are a Year old and not older when the Moon is in the Decrease in the beginning of Spring or in the Fall of the Leaf when its moderate Weather in case you cut them when they are little I confess that the Bacon will be the sweeter but they will not make so large Swine therefore you may use your discretion to cut them from Four to Six Month 's or to a Year To make a Hog Fat THe Hogs that you intend to Fatten for Bacon ought always to be set up in a particular Stye and the darker the Stye is the better provided there be but so much light as to see to give them meat there needs not so much care of them as other Swine but that their Stye be made clean and that they have food at all times lying before them in their Troughs They are not to be brought from one place to another though they have no Motion and not able to move themselves Their is divers manner of Food according to the